Mark Twain Quotes, Fall Quotes, Skins Quotes

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

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I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

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